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The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release December 15, 2009
Presidential Memorandum—Closure of Dentention Facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
SUBJECT: Directing Certain Actions with Respect to Acquisition and Use of Thomson Correctional Center to Facilitate Closure of Detention Facilities at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
By the authority vested in me as President and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107-40, 115 Stat. 224), and in order to facilitate the closure of detention facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, I hereby direct that the following actions be taken as expeditiously as possible with respect to the facility known as the Thomson Correctional Center (TCC) in Thomson, Illinois:
1. The Attorney General shall acquire and activate the TCC as a United States Penitentiary, which the Attorney General has determined would reduce the Bureau of Prisons’ shortage of high security, maximum custody cell space and could be used for other appropriate inmate or detainee management purposes. The Attorney General shall also provide to the Department of Defense a sufficient portion of the TCC to serve as a detention facility to be operated by the Department of Defense in order to accommodate the relocation of detainees by the Secretary of Defense in accordance with paragraph 2 of this memorandum.
2. The Secretary of Defense, working in consultation with the Attorney General, shall prepare the TCC for secure housing of detainees currently held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base who have been or will be designated for relocation, and shall relocate such detainees to the TCC, consistent with laws related to Guantanamo detainees and the findings in, and interagency Review established by, Executive Order 13492 of January 22, 2009.
This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity, by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
The Secretary of Defense is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
BARACK OBAMA
Will it play in Peoria?
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OFF THREAD TOPIC:
“Of 30 homegrown terror plots since 9/11, ten surfaced in 2009 alone”
(FOX NEWS.com, December 14, 2009)
SNIPPET: “That puts “the level of activity in 2009 much higher than that of previous years,” Rand Senior Adviser Brian Jenkins told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee last month.
“There’s definitely a rise in jihad recruits and volunteers in the United States, whether they’re concerning plots here in the U.S. or whether they involve material support to terror plots overseas,” says counterterrorism analyst Steve Emerson, author of “American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us.”
Danny Coulson, former deputy assistant director of the FBI, agrees.
“I ran the entire terrorism program for the FBI for a period of time, and just from what you see in the newspaper there have been more American Islamic extremists terrorists arrested than years in the past,” Coulson told FoxNews.com.
A major concern, Coulson says, is that the majority of the suspects in the 2009 cases have no direct links to major terror organizations.
“They’re just homegrown terrorists who sympathize with the same Islamic extremist philosophy, and although they’re not connected by order or by organization, they’re connected by philosophy and religion,” he said....”
Posted by Robert on December 15, 2009 10:01 AM
And what is with this empty prison? I thought one of our problems in this country was we were running out of space to lock up criminals? This prison was unused for how long?
All the politics and policy issues put aside, this is just classic stoopid.
Good luck maintaining airway security between Illiniois and Manhattan. The territorial boundry provided a security gauntlet. One which is already paid for, monitored, and highly effective.
The Justice Department's fleet of executive jets is going to be a regular airline service to Chicago. Each time, airspace is going to be shut down.
What a bunch of morons. But hey, justice employees who are pilots will be logging some serious Falcon, Citation III, Gulfstream, and Lear Jet time at taxpayer expense!
This is a very, very bad thing and it terrifies me that nobody sees the long term realities. Does anyone think that once this thing goes up and running that a few hundred Islamic Jihadists will be the limit of it's charter?
Let's ask James Trafficant what he thinks of this?
The hard sell is being pushed like a full court press in the Chicago media market. Jobs, business expansion, yada, yada, yada.
No one is talking about the fact that the Thompson prison was privately built and not being used. I would like to see the connection between the builders of the prison and the Democrat machine, Obama in particular, scrutinized. It would seem to be a pay back and a bail out.
However, those who don't have family ties in Illinois will be placed with foster families in Dearborn, MI area. (/S)
Maybe they’ll become Chicago Aldermen?